What is Folklore? This is a question I've seen discussed on social media many times. Efforts tend to try to distinguish why it's...

Why Folklore? And why is it important to me? Sounded simple enough questions, only once you start to strip away the obvious you quite...

Over the last few years, whilst struggling with mental health, I've come to realise how important the folklore, history and landscape of...

I enjoyed this. I love mythology, especially Celtic folklore, and although well aware of Norse mythology - mainly through popular culture...

On an earlier post I made mention of Sandy’s Iron Age forts, and in so doing touched on Vikings too. It’s true. There were Vikings in...

A writer of words and a musician in the past, I find myself immensely proud of the role and function of bardic tradition in Celtic...

Potton is a small town in Bedfordshire that I used to live in. It is mentioned in the Domesday Book and it is said that Hereward the Wake...

Visit Ludlow. I could leave it at that, but I won’t. Ludlow is a gem of a place, in Shropshire, close to the border with Wales, and...

Labyrinths... I mentioned finding a labyrinth on a walk in Boscastle. It’s carved into the dark rock of a granite cliff behind an...

After considering Iron Age forts and the landscape local to where I live last week, I’m going to come leaping forward in time and...